Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is under enormous pressure from the Left to crack down on the "fake news" circulating on the social-media giant. He is well-advised to run as far as he can from the News Police.

In a recent note on Facebook, Zuckerberg claimed he wanted to err "on the side of letting people share what they want whenever possible. ... We do not want to be arbiters of truth ourselves, but instead rely on our community and trusted third parties." The hard left, beginning with President Obama, wants to be that community, that supposedly disinterested third party. It is another step in the long march toward silencing conservative thought in America.
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More: http://www.conservativereview.com/co...news-crackdown

NATO's desperate search for a purpose after the fall of the Soviet Union has left a swath of destruction through places like Libya, which it "liberated" nearly six years ago. Now NATO wants to take in tiny Montenegro, a corrupt, poor, Balkan statelet with a total of 2,000 troops. The reason? To further provoke Russia and to open the door to more NATO expansion perhaps to Georgia, Moldova, and even Ukraine. This week the US Senate will vote on Montenegro's NATO membership. Will president-elect Trump ask them to hold off on this ill-advised move? We discuss in today's Liberty Report:

President-elect Trump's choice of Gen. James Mattis to be Defense Secretary has raised more than a few eyebrows. Not only as a military officer in a traditionally civilian position, but also as an executive at a leading defense contractor. His views on Iran are also considered extreme and not grounded in reality. Will the mad dog be leashed?

President-elect Donald Trump told a Cincinnati audience this week that he intends to make some big changes in US foreign policy. During his “thank you” tour in the midwest, Trump had this to say:

We will pursue a new foreign policy that finally learns from the mistakes of the past. We will stop looking to topple regimes and overthrow governments. …In our dealings with other countries we will seek shared interests wherever possible...”

If this is really to be President Trump’s foreign policy, it would be a welcome change from the destructive path pursued by the two previous administrations. Such a foreign policy
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Rohrabacher tweeted last week, “I have been told that I am under consideration to join President Trump’s team as Secretary of State.” He added, “it would be a privilege and an honor to serve as his Secretary of State.”

The Daily Mail reported on Tuesday that Rohrabacher “has emerged as a dark-horse candidate for secretary of state and The Washington Examiner on Saturday said Rohrabacher is now a front-runner for the position.
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The California Republican’s foreign policy outlook is very much inline with Trump’s anti-interventionist views. On the other hand, Bolton said last year: “The people who say, oh things would have been much better if you didn’t overthrow Saddam miss the point that today’s Middle East does not flow totally and unchangeably from the decision to overthrow Saddam alone.”

In a recent interview, Rohrabacher said radical Islam should be prioritized as a threat. “We have to prioritize, and a non-communist Russia has the same incentive for us to work together because it threatens Russia, and they’re killing Russians. Radical Islamists are killing Russians like they’re killing western Europeans and Americans. For me to suggest that we work with Russia to defeat this threat, I think it is rational,” he added.
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More: http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/04/he...tary-of-state/

The Washington Post recently featured a front page article accusing over 200 websites of being part of a vast Russian propaganda campaign to steal the election from Hillary and give the presidency to Trump. Major sites like Drudge and Zero Hedge are allegedly part of this vast conspiracy, as is the Ron Paul Institute. The Post article links to a "study" by an anonymous group as its source for the wild allegation. And that source calls for a federal criminal investigation of these alternative news sources. Is this neo-McCarthyism about to turn dangerous for free speech?

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., hopes to become the next chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. And he has big plans for what he’ll accomplish in the role.

“From day one since our founding almost two years ago, the mission of the Freedom Caucus has been to give a voice to the countless Americans who feel that Washington does not represent them,” Meadows said.

The 57-year-old lawmaker from Jackson County in western North Carolina is perhaps best known for filing the House motion that ultimately led to the resignation of former Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

After it had managed to post a modest increase in the early part of the year, hitting the highest level in one year in March at 63%, the disenchantment with working has returned, and the labor force participation rate had flatlined for the next few month, ultimately dropping in November to 62.7%, just shy of its 35 year low of 62.4% hit last October. This can be seen in the surge of Americans who are no longer in the labor force, who spiked by 446,000 in November, hitting an all time high of 95.1 million.

The Obama administration has decided to stretch the 15-year old congressional authorization for war against the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, or those harboring them, to include an illegal war against a group in Somalia—al-Shabab—that wasn’t even in existence at the time of the attacks in 2001.
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More generally, after 9/11, rather than following the congressional authorization and focusing like a laser beam on countering the original al Qaeda group and their patrons, the Afghan Taliban, the George W. Bush administration launched a general “war on terror,” which covered all terrorist groups of international scope, regardless of whether or not they focused on attacking US targets. In the end, this massive Bush administration violation of the narrow 2001 authorization led to illegal US drone wars and airstrikes in countries all over the Middle East and Southwest Asia—Somalia (against al Shabab), Yemen (against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula), Pakistan (against the Pakistani Taliban), and Iraq, Syria, and Libya (against ISIS). The Obama administration then accelerated all these unconstitutional wars. Now Obama is trying shore up the already thin legal fig leaf, so that it can pass such travesties—which actually make Islamist groups more rabid each time the US intervenes—onto the incoming Trump administration. When Obama took office, he complained that he inherited from the Bush administration an economic meltdown and a military quagmire in Iraq, but he in turn is bequeathing a legal quagmire to his successor.

Is the globalism that seeks to concentrate power in a few unelected international bodies like the UN and IMF about to spectacularly crash? Will a new internationalism, driven by technology, replace the geographic nationalism of the 20th century? Doug Casey and Nick Giambruno join us in this very special episode of the Liberty Report...

Healthcare reform is in the news with president-elect Donald Trump naming Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services. Price has been a critic of Obamacare, and in today's program we offer Dr. Paul's top three fixes as suggestions for where to start the reform.

I hear by ask, and nominate that our own "Ron Paul Hawaii" Micheal run for president in 2020 :)
He by far represents the liberty movement, and has sacrificed much more than any of us to try and preserve our nation.

Here is the story:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/politics/senate-extends-iran-sanctions/
here is the roll call (H R 6297):
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll577.xml
Thomas was the ONLY one to vote against it.

Art with humor and a political message can say alot. The political cartoon, or editorial cartoon as wiki likes to call it, has a great history. I love these things and would like to see what you all come up with.
http://www.davegranlund.com
Post new ones you find, your favorites, or even draw and upload one yourself!

I don't know about you all but I'm in tears out of happiness!! This has been just an AMAZING day! We again wrote history!! I want to thank each of you from the bottom of my heart for choosing freedom! I love you guys!

Ron Paul & Rand Paul: News & Discussion

It's not over yet. They're still after Ron Paul. Don't read this on a full stomach. -
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/09/how-the-alt-right-became-racist-part-2-long-before-trump-white-nationalists-flocked-to-ron-paul/
Unfortunately the libertarians aren't representing well in the comments. More alt-righters there than real libertarians and they're predictably either impenetrably nerdy or...

2016 Presidential Election

WIKILEAKS JUST DID IT ! They connected Clintons to pedophile ring. Developing...
Laura Silsby! It is happening.
FBI / Wikileaks are working together. The_Donald sub reddit is leading the charge.
BE A PART OF HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go to twitter - Wikileaks account. I can't access on work computer. I saw the feed on mobile twitter.

I've spent the last 30+ hours on YouTube and Fedbook watching this insane meltdown. They've gone from criticising Trump for saying he won't accept election results, to themselves not accepting the results. It's racist that Trump wants to build a wall, but now they want to build a wall separating CA, OR, WA and NV from the rest of the US. Oh yeah and millions of racist messages saying $#@! white...

A lot of great information has been posted in recent weeks, but it's scattered about the forum.
How about we aggregate it all in one place, for easy access?
Post what you got (repetition is fine, having multiple sources is a good thing)
*material for jokes, witticisms, insults, memes, etc also welcome, in addition to policy issues
:toady: is the beginning of the end of...

Three Million Votes Were Cast By Illegal Aliens
Millions of votes were cast by illegal aliens in the recent 2016 election held in the United States. Since they are held to determine the government of the United States, participation in these elections has traditionally been limited to citizens of the United States. However, many commentators and human rights advocacy groups see this policy...

From the start it were only Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump in the spotlight (even in Europe they get shoved down our throat), and because nobody will vote for any politician they don’t know, it’s the media that decides who wins. Last July 26, Hillary accepted the official nomination, while a few days earlier Trump became the nominee for the Democrat-Republicans.
You cannot seriously...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gunman-charged-threatening-dc-restaurant-hit-fake-news-030914425.html
The headline: "Gunman charged after threatening DC restaurant hit by fake news"
So this is their excuse to shut down alt media. Don't give them excuses, people.:mad:

Ok, let me explain my rationale for posting this in Us Politics.
In light of the electoral college whining, it's very clear not too many
people know what purpose the EC serves or why it was put in place.
Crowder put out a great video debunking EC myths and uses quotes from the
founders to explain why it was put in place.
Which led me to conclude, many people quote the US Constitution...

With Attacks On The Rise, Sens. Casey and Scott Introduce Bipartisan Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
(posted in entirety)
Washington, DC– Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Tim Scott (R-SC) introduced the bipartisan Anti-Semitism Awareness Act in an effort to combat increasing incidents of anti-Semitism on college campuses nationwide. The Senators joined together to ensure the U.S....

Natural Health News has requested a retraction/apology over the Washignton Post's Russian fake news story and threatened a law suit.
Now Naked Capitalism has sent a lawyer letter to the Washington Post
http://fakenews.news/2016/12/05/naked-capitalism-demands-apologyretraction-washington-post-fake-news-story/

Saw this ICO which is novel
https://chronobank.io/
Labour-Hour Stable Coins
The first stage of our project is to create the financial backbone of ChronoBank.io: national Labour-Hour (LH) tokens.
LH are linked to average hourly wages in the host country and are backed by a real labour force from big recruitment and labour-hire companies.
Labour is abundant enough for everyone to have...

US avoided a D-DAY (10/11/2016)
My wife and my daughter had a trip to North Europe from 9/23 to 10/2. I think it was arranged by the feds(FBI and DEA). To my experience, it used to be arranged with murder plot. (Both on me and my relatives) Also if the murder plot had been successful, there would be big events taking place to distract public's attention from a small killing case in...

Bitcoin Chart

Living Free and Healthy

This fall the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief Oyarde if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he’d never learned the old tribal secrets. He couldn’t look at the sky to predict what the winter was going to be like.
"It's going to be a very cold winter."
So just to be on the safe side, Oyarde told his tribe that the...

It appears freedom living is safer than over grooming:
Removing Your Pubic Hair Is Linked To A Heightened Risk Of STIs
But researchers aren’t quite sure why.
12/07/2016
Anna Almendrala Senior Healthy Living Editor, The Huffington Post

So, after half a century of turning the country upside down to make everything "safe", banning any industry or machinery that gives off more than unicorn farts for emissions, a million health fatwas of all sorts, total war declared on some drugs and spending insane amounts of money on "health care" the result is:
Life Expectancy In U.S. Drops For First Time In Decades, Report Finds
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The power of positive thinking: Optimism can fend off cancer, heart disease and infection for EIGHT years
By Harry Pettit For Mailonline
Published: 16:00 EST, 7 December 2016
Having a more positive outlook on life may help people live longer.
A new study has revealed that women who are optimistic are less likely to die from cancer, heart disease, stroke, infection, and several other...

Education & Thought Power

...lately i've been hearing a lot republicrats with microphones working their holes about 'fake news'...as if 'fake news' is something new...:rolleyes:
...'the attack on pearl harbor' fascinates me...i was wondering, among other things, if any of you had any 'hard evidence' of united states attacks on japanese ships, etc., prior to 'the attack on pearl harbor'...
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Highly renowned intellectual thinker Richard Spencer once said that the Alt-Right is a wide spectrum of beliefs. I think I have unfairly lumped them into one group and treated them all like they are the same. I came to this comclusion after doing some more research on people who identify as alt-right. So lets take a look at the different types of people in the alt-right. Please tell me if...

Some of you may or may not be surprised by this, But I was a supporter of the public option, back when it was still a part of the health insurance bill.
2 facts about the public option as it was written
1. It's optional to be enrolled
2. It's optional to pay for it.
So, In general, to receive public option benefits, you would have to pay a premium, just like any other insurance...